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Back to Rarotonga

We flew back to Rarotonga early and returned to the Aquarius Rarotonga for another nightstop. We hired a motorbike to explore even though the weather was getting a bit cool.  We attempted to circle the whole island but failed on our first attempt anti-clockwise as it started drizzling. After a break, we reversed direction and […]

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Aitutaki

We did two dives today with Aitutaki Scuba (Neil Mitchell).  The first dive was at Rapae Wall was alright. We saw a turtle float past … then another one which had been resting amongst the rock got up and took off. We also went down 28m into a canyon but there wasn’t much to see.  My dive […]

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Diving in Aitutaki

We did two dives today with Aitutaki Scuba (Neil Mitchell).  The first dive was at Rapae Wall was alright. We saw a turtle float past … then another one which had been resting amongst the rock got up and took off. We also went down 28m into a canyon but there wasn’t much to see.  My dive […]

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Cruising Aitutaki Lagoon

Shortlived Despair The noise outside in the early morning was either rustling of the coconut fronds or rain … we couldn’t tell.  It was windy and gloomy with patches of blue.  Then came a loud knock on our front door followed by advice that our lagoon cruise with Kia Orana had been cancelled. We lay […]

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Short flight to paradise

We had to wake up at 0630 for the 0800 departure from Rarotonga to Aitutaki.  We hadn’t thought of the “2 hour” time difference (but a day behind) when we planned to catch the early morning flight.  Yawn! We got to the airport at 0715 and the place was dead.  Things opened up shortly after […]

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The way New Zealand should be

Above: Cook Island domain names end in “co.ck”. Due to crossing of the International Dateline we were back to Tuesday the 3rd of August!  One day before we left New Zealand … We walked across the road from the small airport terminal for our overnight stay at Aquarius Rarotonga hotel.  It was a tidy place […]

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